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I must have been giddy, and perhaps we both were giddy, but the next thing I knew there was a good foot of space between us in the peaceful glow of the ground-glass globes, in the everlasting stillness of the winged figures.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

The front of each box was open, to aim the light in one direction, and fixed with a ground-glass lens to focus the light onto a more precise area.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

She walked to the door, opened it without haste, and on the landing in the diffused light from the ground-glass skylight there appeared, rigid, like an implacable and obscure fate, the awful Therese — waiting for her sister.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

The windows every morning were covered with rime, and the light shining through them, dim as through ground-glass, sometimes did not change the whole day long.

Madame Bovary 2003

A winding stone stair, well carpeted and railed at first but growing shabbier with every landing, brought them past innumerable doors until, at last, just under the ground-glass roofing, the names of Smith and Hanbury were to be seen painted in large white letters across a panel, with a laconic invitation to push beneath it.

Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

Mark Czescu had the saki heating in a reagent bottle with a ground-glass stopper.

Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977

He fumbled for his key, found it, and opened the ground-glass door.

Pagan Passions Laurence M. Janifer 1967

There were rows of doors, with ground-glass panes, all painted in black or gold with the name of firms, or with the single word, "_Private. _"

A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

Focus a candle-flame or other object on the ground-glass plate of an ordinary photographic camera, and observe the small inverted image.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

To note the shadows cast upon the retina by opaque matters in the vitreous humor (popularly known as floating specks, or gossamer threads), look through a small pin-hole in a card at a bright light covered by a ground-glass shade.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell